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Middleby Corporation

1400 Toastmaster Drive, Elgin, IL, 60120, United States

Overview

The Middleby Corporation is a provider of the food service and food processing equipment industry. It engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of commercial foodservice and food processing equipment.

Total investments
1
Lead investments
0
Investments · 12mo
1
Active investors
4

Sector focus

  • Commercial
  • Cooking
  • Food and Beverage
  • Machinery Manufacturing
  • Residential
  • Service Industry
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Investment portfolio

  • Fresco

    Participated · Series C · Dec 2025

    Fresco builds KitchenOS and the AI Cooking Companion, software that links and orchestrates appliances from brands such as Panasonic, Instant Pot Brands, Viking, Kenwood, Bosch, GE Appliances, and LG. The platform recommends recipes, guides home cooks in real time, and automatically sets and syncs connected devices through screens or voice to ensure meals turn out correctly. Recent OEM integrations with E.G.O. and Arda position Fresco to be embedded at the component level, enabling rapid onboarding and potentially shipping on every appliance those manufacturers produce. Operating in more than 15 languages, the company already supports global scalability and promises increasingly smarter, more effortless cooking as additional partners join the ecosystem. Fresco plans to use fresh capital to evolve its AI Cooking Companion into a globally distributed, appliance-aware sous-chef and to deepen partnerships with leading appliance brands. The company maintains offices in Dublin and Madrid and is focused on reshaping the €60 billion-plus smart-kitchen market expected by 2030. Its recent €15 million Series C round underscores investor confidence in Fresco’s vision and growth trajectory.

Team

  • Timothy FitzGerald

    Chief Executive Officer

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  • Joe Tang Ming Hong

    Co-Founder

  • Norman Al Jawza Marshall NAJM

    Co-Founder

  • Shawn Lange

    President of Lab2Fab

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